Try taking a stroll up Piccadilly Hill
SATURDAY’S Love Memories feature on the old Hartley’s Brewery at Ulverston prompted a letter about an unusual local name for what is now called Brewery Mount.
Memories of Furness General Hospital
ON this day 25 years ago the first patients arrived at Barrow’s new Furness General Hospital.
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Will you be my friend?
FACEBOOK might be the first choice for modern youngsters when making or keeping in touch with friends but that was not always how it was done.
Memories of Alfred Barrow, Thorncliffe and Parkview
ON Wednesday Alfred Barrow Thorncliffe and Parkview schools all closed their doors for the final time.
We're looking for former pupils, staff and governors to get in touch with memories of their time time at Barrow's closing schools.
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The old cabbies shelter was a unique building
YOU don’t need to be very old to have seen major changes in Barrow town centre, but few can match Jack Marsh, of Barnard Street, who can look back to 1930.
Memories of a former Alfred Barrow teacher
I TAUGHT in Alfred Barrow Girl's School during the period when Miss Kay Barrett was Head of School (1975-9). She was the best Head Teacher I have ever worked for in my teaching career.
Funding bid to digitise unique picture archive
A FUNDING bid is being launched to digitise and catalogue a unique collection of slides and photographs featuring Cumbria’s industrial past.
UPDATED: Love Memories
Our online archive has now been updated.
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Getting the Mail to Piel with the help of a boat
A LITTLE bit of British postal history was made on July 20 in 1982 when the first mail deliveries were made to Piel Island by boat.
Artistic tour of the past
A TREASURE trove of original artwork showing South Cumbria’s villages, public buildings and grand country homes is being sold at auction later this month.
A stroll in the winter sunshine at Bowness
With the blue skies and sunshine set to last through the weekend there should be plenty of people sampling the views at Bowness.
Millom Ironworks CD
A new picture cd from the Evening Mail featuring 190 images of Millom Ironworks through the decades. It includes views of the buildings dating from the Victorian era through to closure in September 1968.
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Hodbarrow Mines CD
A new picture cd from the Evening Mail featuring almost 150 views of the famous Hodbarrow Mines which raised 25 million tons of heamatite iron ore until the last pit at Moorbank was closed at the end of March in 1968.
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- Mighty Barrow AFC are going to Wembley
- Awful Barrow Raiders sunk by Featherstone
- Boy on rape charge
- Wembley here we come!
- Barrow night life empire goes bust
- New arrival at the zoo is settling in
- Court told neighbours had fist fight in street
- Two-goal hero Walker 'gobsmacked' at fulfiling Wembley dream
- Sheridan: Going to Wembley will be a career highlight
- Mighty Barrow AFC are going to Wembley
- Barrow night life empire goes bust
- Mystery creature strikes in Barrow
- Shoppers frozen in their tracks in Barrow's Portland Walk
- Barrow man drowns - coroner's warning
- Ulverston farmer shoots himself - inquest
- Jobs rush for new Barrow store
- Cancer reprieve for brave Barrow teen
- Jail for illegal Barrow worker
